Paramount Theatre Announces Star Wars, Pink Flamingos, Sin City for Summer Classics Film Series

Plus Robert Rodriguez gets his star on Congress Avenue

"...community will join a roster of legends of the grande dame of Congress Avenue that includes musicians Delbert McClinton,..."

April 11, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Haunted Mansion

Second movie based on the Disney ride isn't worth wasting a Lightning Lane booking

"...LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jared Leto, Charity Jordan and Chase..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Austin Chronicle Guide to the Mission: Impossible Movies

Your mission, if you choose to accept it ...

"...minute and embracing the action hero persona that he'd avoided since Top Gun a decade earlier. Now, 27 years..."

July 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Never mind the plot: Tom Cruise is back in life-risking action

"...franchise reset. The director was now working around the broader sense of personality of the movies, and a new..."

July 14, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Carmen

Did Bizet's classic tragic opera need a soft reboot?

"...by: Benjamin Millepied. Starring: Melissa Barrera, Paul Mescal, Rossy de Palma, Marina Tamayo, Nicole da Silva, Benedict Hardie and..."

July 7, 2023 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

John Wick: Chapter 4

Can the killer franchise give its dog-loving hero the ending he deserves?

"...Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shamier Anderson, Lance Reddick, Rina Sawayama, Scott Adkins and Ian McShane...."

March 24, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: John Wick: Chapter 4

Baba Yaga is back in his loudest, craziest adventure yet

"...a massive gunfight in the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle barely disrupts the traffic, never mind attract les..."

March 13, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...To listen along, hear songs from our SXSW picks..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Chloe Okuno Explores Horror and Gaslighting in Watcher

Terror's rising director on the quiet perils of showing emotion

"...iconic segments, lovingly memed across Twitter. Now her feature debut, Watcher, has become a smash for distributor IFC Midnight...."

June 8, 2022 Screens Post by Jenny Nulf

X

Ti West returns with a brilliant period horror-porno (horno?)

"...Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell and Stephen Ure...."

March 18, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: X

Ti West's triumphant, gory return to the movies

"...his cozy hotel ghost story The Innkeepers to the demonic slasher The House of the Devil - has made..."

March 14, 2022 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

Parallel Mothers

Almodóvar and Cruz's latest pairing unearths Spain's history

"...by: Pedro Almodóvar. Starring: Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Rossy de Palma...."

Jan. 21, 2022 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beta Test

Jim Cummings burns the film industry to the ground (and it deserves it)

"...down to its production. A project that was 100% crowdfunded, co-directors and stars Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe made..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

Fantastic Fest Review: The Beta Test

Jim Cummings goes for Hollywood's throat in this scathing satire

"...A project that was 100% crowdfunded, co-directors and stars Jim Cummings and PJ McCabe made..."

Oct. 4, 2021 Screens Post by Trace Sauveur

Fantastic Fest Returns to Celebrate Itself

Global genre gathering announces streaming lineup

"...iteration back in July. Unlike many other festivals, they decided not to make the jump to being a full..."

Sept. 10, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Wild Goose Lake

Chinese noir stumbles over its own remarkable style

"...most. Chinese writer-director Diao opens the followup his 2015 murder-mystery Black Coal, Thin Ice with a scene that is..."

March 27, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Unpacks Longest Lineup List

Soccer Mommy, Caroline Rose, Alyona Alyona, and 351 more

"...One day after a multifarious keynote speaker announcement that included Stephen Colbert, Diplo, and the NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity,..."

Jan. 14, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Pompidou Centre to Honor Richard Linklater

Paris gallery hosting celebration of the Austin director and AFS

"...runs Nov. 25, 2019 to Jan. 6, 2020, will include a major gallery exhibition drawing from his archive, including..."

Sept. 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest: A Double Barrel Blast of Begos

Director brings Bliss and VFW to fest

"...one of many FF regulars back this year, having made a splash with his debut, alien infection shocker Almost..."

Sept. 19, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Trespassers

Home invasion shocker is best at its most sadistic

"...at a sumptuous rented house somewhere near the Mexican border. The plan really falls apart when a mysterious woman..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Knife + Heart

Perfect postmodernism among Paris' porn scene in this retro-giallo

"...hurt me,” but it’s also a means of certain death. French writer/director Yann Gonzalez has followed up his dreamy,..."

April 12, 2019 Movie Review by Danielle White

Joachim Trier’s Thelma Is a Riveting Tale of Psychic-Sexual Coming of Age

Love makes the world burn down

"...world premiere during the festival. Later that month, his self-described "existential, supernatural horror film" would take its first U.S...."

Dec. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tragedy Girls

Serial killer high-school girls in the social media age

"...Directed by: Tyler MacIntyre. Starring: Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Kevin Durand, Josh Hutcherson and Nicky Whelan...."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Twofer of Slashers That Are a Cut Above

A horror classic and a hidden gem highlight this week

"...Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which, four decades after its release, retains every single squirm-inducing element of..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Dark Tower

Roland the Gunslinger hits the big screen

"...from page to screen, for it is written: Only De Palma, Reiner, Darabont, and Romero can pull off that..."

Aug. 11, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Baby Driver

A heist goes wrong for a music-loving getaway driver.

"...Driver is behind the wheel, and what a kickass joyride it is. Filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead,..."

June 30, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

SXSW Film Review: Tragedy Girls

Neo-Heathers cuts, but not so deep

"...Shipp, aka Storm from X-Men: Apocalypse) and Sadie (Brianna Hildebrand, aka Negasonic Teenage Warhead from Deadpool) have worked out..."

March 14, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Comedian

De Niro plays an aging insult comic

"...Directed by: Taylor Hackford. Starring: Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito,..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...Almodóvar. Starring: Emma Suárez, Adriana Ugarte, Daniel Grao, Rossy de Palma, Inma Cuesta, Darío Grandinetti, Priscilla Delgado, Michelle Jenner..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Steve Davis’ Top 10 Films of 2016

"...triptych about an African-American male struggling to find his identity is the movie we've been waiting for so long...."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis

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